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Cozy Mystery Series that Take Place In: OH


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Amish Candy Shop Mystery Series

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan) writes the Amish Candy Shop Mystery Series which started in August 2017 and is set in Ohio. Bailey King is living the sweet life as assistant chocolatier at world-famous JP Chocolates in New York City. But just…

Amish Matchmaker Mystery Series

Amanda Flower writes the Amish Matchmaker Mystery series which started in December 2019 and is set in Ohio. It features widowed Millie Fisher who moves back to her childhood home of Harvest, Ohio where she is a matchmaker in her Amish community…

Amish Quilt Mysteries Series

Isabella Alan aka Amanda Flower writes the Amish Quilt Mysteries series which started in September 2013 and is set in Ohio. It features Angela Braddock who moves to Ohio to recover from a broken heart. She inherits her aunt's quilt shop. She…

Appleseed Creek Mystery Series

The Appleseed Creek Mystery started in 2012 and takes place in Ohio. It features Chloe Humphrey who is a 24-year-old computer whiz who moves with some uncertainty to Appleseed Creek (Amish Country) to direct technology services at a nearby…

Bookstore Cafe Mystery Series

Alex Erickson writes the Bookstore Cafe Mystery series which started in May 2015 and is set in Ohio. It features bookstore/cafe owners Krissy Hancock and her best friend Vicki. Together they solve murders.


Buckeye Barrister Mysteries

David M. Selcer writes the Buckeye Barrister Mysteries which started in 2013 and is set in Ohio. It features Winston Barchrist III, a former big time corporate lawyer who barely escaped disbarment for something he didn't do. He is starting life…

Button Box Mystery Series

The Button Box Mystery Series started in 2011 and takes place in Chicago, Illinois. It features Josie Giancola who owns the Button Box Shop. She is also an antique and vintage button expert.


Cheese Shop Mystery Series

This series takes place in Ohio and started in 2010. Charlotte is the Co-Owner of Le Petit Fromagerie (the Cheese Shop) in her small Ohio town.


Ethnic Eats Mystery Series

Kylie Logan writes the Ethnic Eats Mystery Series which starts in May 2016 and is set in Ohio. It features Laurel Inwood former personal chef to a Hollywood movie star who finds herself jobless. Laurel Inwood returns to Hubbard, Ohio to help her…

Haunted Mansion Mystery Series

Lucy Ness (aka Casey Daniels, Kylie Logan, Miranda Bliss, Constance Laux) writes the Haunted Mansion Mystery Series which started in September 2020 and is set in Ohio.  It features manager Avery Morgan who has had a harrowing first…

Ice Cream Parlor Mystery Series

Abby Collette writes the Ice Cream Parlor Mystery Series which is set in Ohio and started in May 2020.  Recent MBA grad Bronwyn Crewse has just taken over her family's ice cream shop in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and she's going back to…

India Hayes Mystery Series

The India Hayes Mystery Series started in 2010 and is set in Ohio. It features India Hayes who is a starving artist and works as a college librarian. Her parents are liberal activists from the sixties and her sister is an emotional mathematician…

League of Literary Ladies Mystery Series

Kylie Logan (aka Casey Daniels, Miranda Bliss, Constance Laux) writes the League of Literary Ladies Mystery series which started in June 2013 and takes place in Ohio. It features B&B owner Bea Cartwright, hippy cat lover Chandra Morrisey, and…

Living History Museum Mystery Series

Amanda Flower writes the Living History Museum Mystery Series which started in May 2015 and is set in Ohio. It features Kelsey Cambridge who is the director of Barton Farm, a living history museum in Ohio. As the museum director Kelsey is…

Ministry is Murder Mystery Series

This series set in Ohio and started in 2005. It features Aggie Sloan-Wilcox, a Minister's wife who deals with everyday life and raising a family. They just moved from the busy DC area to a small town in Ohio and Aggie finds herself dealing with…

Nina Quinn Series

This series takes place in Ohio and was started in 2004 and features Nina Quinn, professional landscaper. Nina owns a landscaping firm called Taken by Surprise which specializes in surprise garden makeovers that are completed in one day. She is…

Oakwood Mystery Series

Leslie Nagel writes the Oakwood Mystery Series which started in 2016 and is set in Ohio. Join amateur sleuth Charley Carpenter as she assists Detective Marcus Trenault with some of the most confounding and sinister cases in their quaint hometown'…

Pepper Martin Mystery Series

The Pepper Martin Mystery Series started in 2006 and takes place in Ohio. It features Pepper Martin who is beautiful, smart and chic and never had to work a day in her life...... circumstances changed and now Pepper is a cemetery tour guide.…

Piper O'Donnell Social Lite Mystery Series

Jennifer Vido writes the Piper O'Donnell Social Lite Mystery series which started in 2011 and is set in Ohio. It features small town socialite Piper O'Donnell. Along with her boyfriend, private eye Rusty, and sister Penelope she solves murders.…

Popcorn Shop Mystery Series

Kristi Abbott writes the Popcorn Shop Mystery series which starts in March 2016 and is set in Ohio. It features Rebecca Anderson. After a failed marriage to a celebrity chef, she’s ready for her life to open up and expand. She has returned to her…

Spicetown Mystery Series

Sheri Richey writes the Spicetown Mystery Series which started in February 2018 and is set in Ohio. It features Cora Mae Bingham, mayor of Spicetown and Conrad Harris, Chief of Police. Cora keeps an eye on her quaint small town nestled in the…

Vicky Andrews Mystery Series

L.A. Frazier writes the Vicky Andrews Mystery series which started in 2012 and is set in Ohio. Recently divorced forty-something Vicky Andrews needs a life. But finding a dead body at an Open House she was hosting was not what she had in mind.…